Thursday, 18 December 2014

Sony cancels The Interview release amid threats

USA NEWS CORP

 Sony cancels The Interview release amid threats

18 December, 2014, Korea, USA NEWS CORP
Sony Pictures has cancelled release on 25 December of the film The Interview, after major cinema chains decided not to screen it. 
Sony Pictures has made official, when hackers threatened to blow up movie theaters if The Interview was released next week. The studio has officially declined its release plans. Sony had poor choice here, after the major theater chains announced earlier today they would not display the film given the threatening circumstances.
The film is about a fictional plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Hackers have already carried out a cyber attack on Sony and warned the public to stay away from cinemas screening the film.
The US government said it was considering a "range of options" on how to respond to the attack.
Sony Pictures has been the victim of an unprecedented criminal assault against our employees, our customers, and our business. Those who attacked us stole our intellectual property, private emails, and sensitive and proprietary material, and sought to destroy our spirit and our morale – all apparently to thwart the release of a movie they did not like. We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our company, our employees, and the American public. We stand by our filmmakers and their right to free expression and are extremely disappointed by this outcome.”
"We know that criminals and foreign countries regularly seek to gain access to government and private sector networks - both in the United States and elsewhere," a National Security Council statement said, adding that the FBI was leading the investigation.
"We take very seriously any attempt to threaten or limit artists' freedom of speech or of expression."
The statement came after US media quoted anonymous officials as saying that the FBI had linked North Korea to the attacks.

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